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This book shares the author's passion for woodturning lathes, emphasizing their role as an essential tool in woodworking rather than the sole focus. The second edition of The Lathe Book includes updates on new machines, accessories, and techniques, reflecting advancements in the field. Enhanced readability, improved illustrations, and new color photography are key features of this edition.

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Lathe Book_Part8

This book shares the author's passion for woodturning lathes, emphasizing their role as an essential tool in woodworking rather than the sole focus. The second edition of The Lathe Book includes updates on new machines, accessories, and techniques, reflecting advancements in the field. Enhanced readability, improved illustrations, and new color photography are key features of this edition.

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Introduction

n this book, I will share with you my love of the woodturning lathe.
I This is a book with a difference because it doesn't focus on the lathe
to the exclusion of all other woodworking. Rather, it treats the lathe as
another essential tool in the woodworking shop-a tool that can expand
your woodworking horizon and add pizzazz to your work. All woodworkers
need to be more familiar with the lathe because at some point your wood­
working projects will require turned parts.
When The Taunton Press asked me to do the second edition of The
Lathe Book, I was delighted, but I never realized that rewriting is much
more difficult than writing. Much has changed since the first edition, so
there are many new machines, accessories, and gadgets to share. Turning
is becoming gentrified, and there are now tools and accessories that had
never before been dreamed of. While the philosophical side of me laments
the simplicity lost, the tool junkie side of me opens each "absolutely indis­
pensable" new piece of hardware with childlike enthusiasm. My wife,
Susan, appropriately bought me a T-shirt claiming, "He who dies with
the most tools wins." I am in serious contention for the grand prize.
I am also a better turner today than I was eight years ago and have
taught scores of people to turn, so I can tell the story better. Because I
have also written Turning for Furniture Makers ( a detailed spindle-turning
book with an accompanying video) and Turn a Bowl with Ernie Conover
( an action manual for bowl turners) since the first edition of The Lathe
Book, I decided to drop some of the techniques and concentrate more on
the lathe and it accessories. The tool chapter is much more readable and
the illustrations are better. Photography is entirely new and in color.

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